Erica Jong Quotes
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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The word 'change' has been abused so many times.
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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
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They that govern the most make the least noise.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.
